“I had to have a reason personally to have that extra money,” Nathan Mueller, convicted fraudster*, told attendees at the 26th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference. “I started the gambling, I had never gambled before, to cover up the fraud, and then I started stealing to gamble. So that’s why it went on so long. That’s why it increased from that first $1,100 check to, there was a day when I took $400,000 in one day.”

Carolyn W. Colvin, acting commissioner for the Social Security Administration, told attendees during the Tuesday morning General Session that the agency's message to those that attempt to defraud Social Security is plain: "We will find you, we will prosecute you, we will seek the maximum punishment under the law, and we will fight to restore the money you have stolen from the American people."

Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division, Leslie R. Caldwell, said in her opening keynote that corruption is a fight in which we have critical international allies.

The 26th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference opened in impressive style on June 15 in Baltimore with the presentation of the colors, a bagpipe procession, a new welcome video and the spirit of ACFE founder and Chairman, Dr. Joseph T. Wells, CFE, CPA.